“Integrated well” is a white lie, but forgiveable, given that Overland is the head of Victoria Police, not the Immigration Minister, and is rightly keen to ensure that young Muslim men are not treated with such hostility that they naturally arc up.

But Overland overreaches, playing into the hands of extremists by turning responsibility for Muslim extremism from Muslim communities to non-Muslim Australians:Â More

Mr Imam is the son of Sheik Fehmi Naji el-Imam, Australia’s Islamic mufti and the leader of the Preston mosque. Mr Imam, who is chief executive of the Islamic Council of Victoria, has declined to talk about the attack.Â More

THE fight against home-grown terrorists can be aided by slashing Australia’s annual migrant intake and a sharp reduction in the issuing of temporary work visas, according to Labor Party federal MP Kelvin Thomson.

Since it’s a Labor MP that says it, the media outrage will be limited:

Mr Thomson wants the number of migrants granted a visa to be reduced back to the levels of the mid-1990s to allow for more vetting of applicants to make sure that people with links to fundamentalist groups are identified and a thorough investigation of whether they pose a risk is undertaken.

Thomson may be said to be brave, but not brave enough. As even this latest alleged plot demonstrates, you may screen migrants all you like for fundamentalist tendencies, but how can you screen their toddlers or unborn children – the generation that tends to be more radical than the generation you brought in?

So Thomson’s “solution” is in fact too much like a search for a phantom, even presuming you could so thoroughly check the backgrounds of refugees from an area too dangerous and anarchic for any official to go comb through records: